Smudge 8-- Three First Appearance Charles Bukowski Poems (1981)

Published in 1981, Smudge 8 featured three first appearances by Bukowski:

The Game
The Temporal Ease
We Both Knew Him

The Game would later appear in Open All Night in 2000, The Temporal Ease would appear in Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way in 2002, and We Both Knew Him would appear in Dangling in the Tournefortia in 1981.

Contributors include Charles Bukowski, Steve Kowit, Ronald Koertge, Jane Somerville et al.

This copy is in Near Fine condition with some small creases to the top cover.

Overall, a very nice copy of this poetry journal edited by fellow poet Hank Malone out of Detroit.

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